As a novelist, poet, political activist, and painter, Victor Hugo was a central figure in the Romantic movement of 19th-century France. Both his family and his times influenced Hugo’s social views and politics, which included a deep concern with human rights, social injustice, and poverty as the root of evil. Born in Besan on, France, in 1802, Hugo grew up in the years of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. In 1815 the empire collapsed at the battle of Waterloo, which Hugo describes in detail in Les Misérables, and a constitutional monarchy was established. Hugo’s father was a general in the Napoleonic army with republican sympathies while his middle-class mother had royalist leanings. The young Hugo spent a large part of his childhood in Paris with his mother. He also traveled through Europe in his father’s wake and glimpsed the Napoleonic campaigns. After attending school in Paris, he married his childhood love, Adèle Foucher, in 1822.In that same year, Hugo published his first volume of poetry, the beginning of a long and diverse literary career that also included drama and novels.
作为一名小说家,诗人,活动家和画家,维克多 雨果是法国十八世纪浪漫主义运动的核心人物。他的家庭和时代都影响了雨果的社会观和政治观,他深刻地意识到人权,社会的不平等和贫困是罪恶的根源。雨果1802年出生在法国的贝尚松,成长在拿破仑 波拿巴帝国时期。1815年,拿破仑王朝在滑铁卢战役中灭亡,雨果在悲惨世界中对这场战争做了详细的描述,一个君主立宪制的国家随之建立。雨果的爸爸曾是拿破仑军队的一名将军,是共和制的支持者,而他中产阶级的妈妈则有保皇主义的倾向。少年雨果和母亲一起在巴黎度过了大多数的童年时光。他也跟随父亲游历了整个欧洲,同时目睹了拿破仑军队的一些战役。1822年,在巴黎入学后,雨果与青梅竹马的阿黛尔结为夫妻。同年,雨果出版了他的第一本诗集,这本诗集是他漫长而形式多样的文学生涯的开端,他的一生也创作了许多话剧和小说。
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